Mattress



H. SCHIMMEL July 29, 1924.

MATTRES S 2 Sheets-Shen. 1

Filed June 18 1923 July 29. l924 l H. SCHIMMEI.

MATTRES S Filed June 18. 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 [NI/ENTOR. m

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Patented July 2e, i924.

UNITED STATES HARRY SCHIMMEL, F NEW YORK, N. Y.

MATTRESS.

hpplioation led .Tune 18, 1923. Serial No. 645,977.

To `all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY SCHTMMEL. a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city,

county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Mattress, of which the following isa specification.

The invention relates to mattresses for beds, and particularly to such devices in which the stuffing is arranged in horizontal layers.

The objects of the. invention are to provide an article of the class described having its layers well defined, and separated one from the other; in which the stufiing is formed into a pad which is maintained toform lwithout the use of a tick or cover; having a tick o r cover which may be opened for inspection of the stuffing, and remov- A able from the stutiing pad for the purpose of airing and revivifying the stuiiing and laundering the tick or bag, and which willbe prevented. from bulging whereb it will retain its box-like form and its sur aces will not sag, but will retain their fiat shape.

'l'hese and further objects Will more fully appear in, the following specification and .accompanying drawings considered together or separately.

.30 One embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawin s, in

tress embodying the invention illustrating the tick or cover artly removed.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a portion of a mattress pad with' vthe tiek or cover re-- moved.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same, on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view showing the tick or cover in position.

Fig. 5 is a plan view on a very much reduced scale showing the manner of forming me tick or cover in place.

Fig. 6 is a detail perspectivel view of an-V other form of cover closure, and

Fig. 7 is a diagram of a modified form of layer separating device.

As shown in the drawings. the mattress pad comprises three layers 6, 7 and 8 of felt, for example. The layers are separated 55 'one from the other by means of sheets 9 and 1,0 of any suitable material. The layers and sheets are eut to approximately the saine size.

The sheets and layers are quilted or tufted together to make a unitary structure. The threads 11 may be passed through the Structure in the usual manner. The buttons or patches used in the tufting process are preferably the male members 12 of the usual spring snap buttons generally used for gloves. Each member 12 is provided with an eye 13 through which the thread passes, to draw the member into the surface of the structure. By this construction the mattress is held together 'in-the'form et' a pad, and in shape without the help of the tick or cover. At intervals the four edges of the sheets 9 and 10are provided with fastening mem-V bers 14 which may be the same as the members 12. The members 14 are secured to the sheets'in any desired manner and project laterly therefrom.

The tick or cover 15 is preferablv formed of a single piece of asuitable fabric cut'to the form shown in Fig. 5, and may be folded along the dotted lines 16 to form the same into a box-like bag or casing.

The top 17 and bottom 18 of the tick are provided with a series of eyelets 19 in the same arrangement as to numberand spacing as are the members 12, and the ends 20 and sides 21 of the tick are provided with similar eyelets 19 which`register with the fastenin members 14 whereby when the cover or tic is ositioned around or over the mattress pa the members 12 and 14 will project through the eyelets. A female springsnap member 22 is then snapped over each member 1 2 and 14, and the tick is securely fastened to the pad or mattress proper.

The free edges of the tick are secured together in any suit-able and desired manner to close the casing. 1n Figs. 1 and 4 the edges are provided with flaps- 23 which are secured to the side and end members by means of the usual s ring snap fastenings 24. In

Fig. 6 the es are-secured together b means of tapes or cords 25 passing throug 1 eyelets in the elements. IThese fastening means are given as types, and applicantV does not intend to limit himself to such securing means either as to the tufting, securing the sheets to the ends and sides'of the tiek, 'or the edges of the tick together.

Instead of using sheets such as 9 and 10 for separating the layers 6, 7 and 8, stout cords 26 may extend between the fastening members on the ends of the tick, and similar cords or lines 27 may extend between fastening members on the sides of the tick. These cords or lines will, in effect, form sheets of wide mesh between the layers.

The tufting will revent shifting of the elements of the pa or mattress relatively to each other, and the fastenings between the pad and tick will prevent shifting of the tick relatively to the pad, and will prevent unevenness of the mattress.

The sheets, or the longitudinal and transverse cords, being firmly anchored' to the side and end walls of the tick structure will prevent bulging of the mattress pad, and will restore the same to its box-like form when the weight is removed from it.

The tick may be unfastened at a number of points whereby a purchaser may examine the stufling, or the tick may be removed for the urpose of laundering, or for airing or ot erwise drying the mattress pad.

The term pad in this specification and claims refers to the material with which the tick or cover is filled.

Instead of employing eyelets 19 and separate snap fastening members22 to secure the cover to the pad, the said members 22 may be secured to the cover as in the case of a glove or tobacco pouch or the like.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes, I have described the principle of my invention together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the embodiment thereof, but it is desired to have it understood that the apparatus shown is merely illustrative and that the invention may be carrie-d out in other ways.

The invention having been described, what is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is z- 1. A mattress, comprising a pad means for securing the material of the pad in the desired form, a tick or cover enclosing the pad, and means for securing the tick to the pad securing means.

2. A mattress, comprising a' pad, means for securing the mate-rial of the pad in the desired form, a cover for the pad, and detachable means for securing the cover to the pad securing means.

3. A mattress, comprising a ad, the materials of the ad being tufte together, a fastening mem er at the intersection ofthe tufting means, a cover for the pad, and a fastening member for enga ing the cover with the tuft fastening memers.

4f. In a mattress, a pad, said pad comprising layers of resilient material, means separating the layers, means for tufting the layers and separating means together, a cover for the pad, and means other than those passing through the pad for securing the separating means to the cover.

5. In a mattress, a pad comprising a plurality of layers of resilient material, means separating the layers, means passing through the layers and separating means for securing the same together, a box-like cover enclosing the pad, said cover being of the same configuration as the pad, and detachable means for securing the separating means to the cover.

6. In a mattress, a pad comprising a plurality of flat layers of resilient material, a sheet like member of approximately the same area as the major surface of the pad disposed between each adjacent surface of the layers, the said layers and sheet-like members being tufted together, a box-like covering for the pad, the top and bottom of said cover being secured to the intersecting tufting means, the edges of the sheet-'like members being secured to the sides and ends of the cover.

7. A mattress cover of box-like form and adapted to receive and enclose a tufted mattress pad, and means carried by the cover whereby the same may be secured to the tufts. y

8. A mattress cover of box-like form and adapted to receive and enclosea tufted mattress pad, and means carried byv the cover whereby the same may be removably secured to the tufts.

This specification signedvand witnessed this fourteenth dav of June, 1923.

HARRY SCHIMMEL.

`Witnessesz JOSEPH M. BING, ARTHUR FRIEDMAN. 

